REPLY SD Impact on National Government Policies (SD6138)

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Posted by  "Jack Ring" <jring at amug.org>
While reading John Gunkler's interesting view I kept getting the image of 
the reliability analyst or performance analyst on a large project who sits 
in the corner, finally gets enough information to construct his/her model 
and simulation scenarios then, by the time results are available finds the 
project is already through system test and deployed.

An alternative scenario would have an SD-capable person on staff to each 
legislator.  Also, they will belong to a Community of Purposeful Practice. 
This community would be  the linkage to public interest groups also 
'speaking' SD.

Also, it would be useful if the Congressional Research Service (who use all 
sorts of tools) produced SD diagrams of the implications of speeches made 
each day and of new bills and amendments thereto.  Bills have loopholes. 
Amendments are the main carriers of Unintended Consequences.

cheers,
Jack Ring
Posted by  "Jack Ring" <jring at amug.org>
posting date  Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:28:34 -0700